Today’s Thucydides: Power, Politics, and Appropriation
Join us for a roundtable discussion on the reception of Thucydides in a new light: focusing especially on the 20th century and on contemporary politics from a global perspective. Read more
Join us for a roundtable discussion on the reception of Thucydides in a new light: focusing especially on the 20th century and on contemporary politics from a global perspective. Read more
On Wednesday, April 19th at 3:00 pm EDT, Reading Greek Tragedy Online returns with Plautus’ Amphitruo! Read more
On Tuesday, April 4th the sixth season of Reading Greek Tragedy Online continues with a live dramatic reading of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos! Read more
Monday, March 27 the 6th season of Reading Greek Tragedy Online kicks off with a live dramatic reading of Sophocle’s Electra, translated by Anne Carson! Read more
Reading Greek Tragedy Online returns this Spring with a new season of performances taking place on screen and in person. Read more
Greece hosted vibrant Neolithic communities that spread over various landscapes, including caves in all settings. The absence of textual evidence makes materiality our utmost medium through those communities’ social and spiritual worlds. Read more
A question keeps coming up about slavery in the Greek world: how is it possible that the great thinkers of classical Athens never denounced, and even endorsed, the crime of slavery? Read more
Jackie Murray is an associate professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky and at SUNY at Buffalo. She completed her BA at the University of Guelph, MA at Western University, and PhD in Classics at the University of Washington. Read more
Please join us in person at House A for a fireside chat with Jackie Murray. A reception will follow, with a tour of the Black Classicists Exhibit. Read more
Grounded in social history, the talk explores the emergence of medical pluralism—the interwoven professional and cultural systems or “marketplaces” that evolved to manage health and disease—in Greek communities across the ancient Mediterranean. Read more